Scary Thought of the Day: Justin Bieber Accounts For 3% of Twitter

I wish it wasn’t true. Hell, you wish it wasn’t true, too. But alas – according to website designer Dustin Curtis, who’s been rapping with the folks at Twitter ’bout some metrics, the Canadian eunich sensation Justin Bieber accounts for 3% of Twitter’s entire infrastructure.

As a non-Bieberite (I’m sure the prepubescent hordes who follow him have their own cute little word), this is sort of depressing. So, somewhere in the US, there is a room full of machines dedicated around-the-clock to pushing word of the goings-on of an 11-year-old (or whatever, 13, 14, who cares) boy… and meanwhile, I’ve got 146 followers?

Y’ever hate the system?

To be fair, Curtis was also informed that most popular users have their own servers. There’s also one for Oprah. That’s not so bad.

Okay, then, so what is this brilliant wordsmith tweeting that could possibly be worth 3% of all of Twitter? What insightful prose is spilling from fingertips?

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I’d rather watch Justin Bieber tweet than read you complain about how he is more popular than you. There is nothing wrong with the system. Millions of teenage girls love him, do you want them to love you too?

OH. MY. GOD. He has a room full of servers dedicated to him, somewhere in the vast expanse that is the United States. What are we ever going to do?

Honestly have to say I’m not that surprised. His fans are all digital natives after all.. of course they’re talking about him like crazy! Still, this would be good material for NewsCats… “In this week’s news: Justin Beiber is taking over twitter.” Haha..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbugfKAtMX8